Everybody uses him, from the dishonest Lebowski to his scheming trophy wife, to the German nihilists.

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His confrontational approach leads to the death of a friend later when Walter takes on the nihilists in the parking lot.

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Republicans on the Hill, of course, are being cast as the nihilists in the drama, as the ones who want to blow things up.

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Precisely 40 years ago it was a story with a cast of thousands of protagonists, antagonists, nihilists and monetarists with dramatic tension up the wazoo.

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But we edu-nihilists actually do have a lot of ideas.

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Scott Walker is just an outgrowth of this movement, emboldened by a national dialogue that has placed teachers on the altar of school reform and that has labeled anyone who might choose to defend them as edu-nihilists.

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